* Firmicus Maternus.

The source for this visit, Julius Firmicus Maternus, does not give a reason for this but the quick movement and the danger involved in crossing the channel in the dangerous winter months, suggests it was in response to a military emergency of some kind, possibly to repel the Picts and Scots.

According to Julius Firmicus Maternus of the fourth century, this play was re-enacted each year by worshippers who

* Julius Firmicus Maternus writes De erroribus profanarum religionum.

* Julius Firmicus Maternus makes the first recorded observation of solar prominences, during an annular eclipse ( July 17 ).

Julius Firmicus Maternus, who wrote in the time of Constantine, exhibits so many points of resemblance with the work of Manilius that he must either have used him or have followed some work that Manilius also followed.

Matheseos Libri VIII by Firmicus Maternus ( Park Ridge, 1975 ).

* edition of Julius Firmicus Maternus ' De Errore Profanarum Religionum ( 1856 )

Julius Firmicus Maternus was a Christian Latin writer and notable astrologer, who lived in the reign of Constantine I and his successors.

Matheseos Libri VIII by Firmicus Maternus, translated by Jean Rhys Bram, Park Ridge, Noyes Press, 1975.

* Béatrice Caseau, " Firmicus Maternus: Un astrologue converti au christianisme ou la rhétorique du rejet sans appel ," in La religion que j ' ai quittée, éd.

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Other ancient writers who described the hair of the Thracians as red include Hecataeus of Miletus, Galen, Clement of Alexandria, and Julius Firmicus Maternus.

He also edited a number of classical texts for the Teubner series, the most important of which are Tacitus ( 4th ed., 1883 ); Rhetores Latini minores ( 1863 ); Quintilian ( 1868 ); Sulpicius Severus ( 1866 ); Minucius Felix together with Firmicus Maternus De errore ( 1867 ); Salvianus ( 1877 ) and Victor Vitensis's Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae ( 1878 ).

* Julius Firmicus Maternus, a 4th century astrologer and writer on the subject of profane religions.

This work is referred to by Firmicus Maternus, who about 336 speaks of the prudentissimus Achilles in his Matheseos libri ( Math.

Among the sins that Malmesbury imputed to him was the study of Julius Firmicus Maternus, a late Roman astrologer, every morning, which to Malmesbury meant that Gerard was a sorcerer.

As Firmicus says that hardly any Roman except ' Caesar ' ( by whom he almost certainly means Germanicus Caesar rather than Julius Caesar ), Cicero and Fronto had treated the subject, it is probable that he did not know the work of Manilius.

The lunar crater Firmicus was named in his honour.

De errore profanarum religionum provides such a sharp contrast with Firmicus ' book on astrology ( commonly referred to as the Mathesis ), that the two works have sometimes been attributed to different writers.

However, Theodor Mommsen has shown that the Mathesis was composed in the year 336 and not in 354 as was formerly held, thus making it an earlier work than De errore profanarum religionum, and could have been written prior to Firmicus ' conversion to Christianity.

Mare Undarum ( the " sea of waves ") is an uneven lunar mare located just north of Mare Spumans on the lunar near side, between the crater Firmicus and the eastern limb.

His body was found in an orchard, next to a book of " curious arts ", his copy of Julius Firmicus.

According to Firmicus Maternus ( 4th century ), the system of horoscopic astrology was given early on to an Egyptian pharaoh named Nechepso and his priest Petosiris.

It is southwest of the crater Firmicus, and north of Condon.

Somewhat closer to this crater are Tebbutt to the west, and Firmicus to the east-southeast.

It lies southeast of Mare Crisium, and north-northeast of the larger crater Firmicus.

It lies along the southern shore of the Mare Undarum, to the southeast of the crater Firmicus.

Firmicus is a lunar crater that lies in the eastern part of the Moon's near side, so that from Earth it appears oval in shape due to foreshortening.

* The Christian astrologer Julius Firmicus Maternus ( fourth century ), after whom the crater is named.

* The Roman Maternus arrives in Ethiopia.

* Peasants in Gaul stage an anti-tax uprising under Maternus.

In 187, one of the leaders of the deserters, Maternus, came from Gaul intending to assassinate Commodus at the Festival of the Great Goddess in March, but he was betrayed and executed.

Cologne's first Christian bishop was Maternus.

Around St. Maternus ' Basilica

* Maternus Tiberius Claudius, consul in AD.

* New, R. " Italian Child Care and Early Education: Amor Maternus and Other Cultural Contributions.

Roman generals Septimus Flaccus in 19 BCE and Suetonius Paulinus in 50 CE led military expeditions into Sub-Saharan Africa, and Roman explorer Julius Maternus traveled there in early 1st century CE.

All names before Maternus (' II ') are to be approached with considerable skepticism since no contemporary evidence is available.

Maternus was present at a council in Rome in 313.

* Maternus I c. 88 – 128